Senator Claire McCaskill sets a trap and The Lizard of Oz stumbles into it
Last week, we took Senator Claire McCaskill to task for what seemed to be a plan to use Dr. Mehmet Oz (henceforth The Lizard of Oz) as a witness to testify in front of the Senate Commerce, Science, and...
View ArticleWe are not the only Dr. Oz “fans” out there
As we have done repeatedly, fellow debunker Michael Shaw has some things to say about Dr. Oz on his web page Shaw’s Eco-Logic. Here are a couple of examples from his piece The Merry Old Land of Oz,...
View ArticleImportant discussion elucidates the forces behind “chronic Lyme” scams
And the beat goes on: “Chronic Lyme Disease” quacks and scammers exploit minimal knowledge and maximal greed to “treat” ingenuous patients indefinitely for a condition they do not have, and likely does...
View ArticleDr. Ozvorkian gets busted again. You are better off flipping a coin.
When Dr. Oz eventually goes to the magic fat burner in the sky, he may reflect upon the past few months and conclude that there may have been better times in his professional life. Continue reading →...
View ArticleO2 No! Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is back. Let the breather beware.
In the neverending world of “alternative medicine,” it’s always something. The non-medical roulette wheel from hell has a far greater number of wrong choices (37 on a standard roulette wheel ) than...
View ArticleHomeopathy: 50 Shades of Black Magic
InScreen Shot 2015-03-11 at 2.01.10 PM the end, it was a complete waste of time and money. Yet, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia's top agency for medical research has...
View ArticleGoing to an oasis for Perrier
Let’s give a big shoutout to Gawker today. They really stuck it to the Times by pointing out that their columnist Nick Bilton, who writes about style (and should obviously not venture beyond this) had...
View ArticleACSH on Law and Order? We work with the NY Attorney General on supplement...
We have written numerous times about the folly of the supplements industry, the latest incident (see the original report by the Times’ Anahad O'Connor) where GNC, Target, Walmart and Walgreens were...
View ArticleA Letter to Dr. Oz from a PhD Microbiologist
Today we give a mega-shoutout to Alex Berezow over at RealClearScience for his brilliant letter to Dr.Oz. Continue reading → The post A Letter to Dr. Oz from a PhD Microbiologist appeared first on...
View ArticleDr. Paul Offit delivers again: “Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines...
Continuing the assault on anti-scientific beliefs and quackery that he thoroughly eviscerated in his previous book, “Do You Believe in Magic-The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine,” Dr. Paul...
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